A company that created an app to find transit directions that can be used in subway tunnels won the NY MTA’s competition for the best Smartphone software app for riders Embark NYC, can help NYC subway riders plan trips, see schedules for their particular route, and use an interactive map of the subway system. David…
(Michael Grabell, ProPublica) [1]This story was adapted from “Money Well Spent?: The Truth Behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History [1],” which will be published Tuesday by PublicAffairs. A common criticism of President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus package has been that it failed to produce anything – that while the New…
(New York — Kathleen Horan, WNYC) A local attorney will argue a case using the recent Supreme Court decision banning law enforcement from using GPS to track suspects without a warrant to challenge the use of data gathered from GPS systems in cabs as evidence. He’s defending a taxi driver in a lawsuit against the…
Following on the heels of Staten Island, the Bronx will become the second of New York’s five boroughs to get real-time bus information. New York’s MTA is currently installing GPS units on the 1,025 buses that serve the borough. The agency said the service will go live sometime this year. In a press release, MTA…
Sure, every website needs a mobile version nowadays. But that’s especially true if one of your target audiences is pilots and frequent air travelers. Mobile traffic to the FAA’s website just about tripled over the past two years, to about 4.4 million visitors a year. The new website, www.faa.gov/mobile has quick access to the most popular…
Rutgers University has scored a $3.5-million dollar grant from the US Department of Transportation. The school’s Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) was one of 22 University Transportation Centers to get the federal grants this year, down from 60 institutions that received grants last year. CAIT’s Associate Director of Marketing and Communications, Allison Thomas,…
This is from the U.S. DOT: U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Announces $77 Million in Transportation Research and Education Grants U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today $77 million in grants to 22 University Transportation Centers (UTCs) to advance research and education programs that address critical transportation challenges facing our nation. The UTCs, which are…
When New York wanted to spur developers to create transit apps, it offered up $15,000 in prizes. Boston is dangling free lunch … and a lot of data. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and MassDOT launched a contest today looking for software applications and data visualizations that “show the power of Boston’s transportation options.” What…
Some 757 buses in Staten Island will now tell you where they are. The NY MTA has installed GPS devices in the buses, at a cost of $7 million, and after what it says are 6 years of development. The MTA says there are three ways to use Bus Time: Click it. Text it. Scan…
Yep, Staten Island, your bus will come. And now, you can know when. The MTA is today launching real-time bus information for the entire borough. Users can find out where their bus is – actually, not theoretically. Which means you can linger in a shop, or not bother to leave your house on a cold…
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